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Funding News - August 2024

Funding News - August 2024

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Success stories

Sussex Community Foundation
Veterans’ Foundation

Information and Guidance

East Sussex in Figures (ESIF)
Let’s Get Out – Guides and Resources to Make Outdoor Spaces More Inclusive for Women
National Heritage Lottery Fund- Archives Revealed Funding Programme to launch soon
Sport England - new guidance on accessible and inclusive facilities
Veterans’ Foundation Announces 2024/25 Deadlines

Lottery

Sport England - England and Wales Cricket Board - Grass Pitch Improvement Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund: Strategic Initiatives
National Lottery Community Fund - The UK Fund

Government

Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)- Memorial Grant Scheme
Skills Capital Fund - Hastings and Rother
Reach for the Sky Challenge Fund 2024/25

Trusts and Foundations

Ancaster Trust
Andor Charitable Trust
Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust
Barclays Community Football Fund
The Bedgebury Foundation – Supporting Access to Education
Britford Bridge Trust
Bruce Wake Charitable Trust
Chalk Cliff Trust
Concertina Charitable Trust
Dan Maskell Tennis Trust
DWF Foundation
Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund
The Finnis Scott Foundation
Footwork – People and Places Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Grocers' Charity
Henry Moore Foundation
Historic England - History in the Making Grants
John Jackson Charitable Trust
Masonic Charitable Foundation – Children and Young People Grants Programme (SEND)
Metal for Good Grants - Rock and Metal Music
Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
Music for All - Community Project Funding
Neat Streets Grant Fund
NFU Mutual Charitable Trust
Peter Sell Award
Royal Academy of Engineering - Ingenious Public Engagement Grants Scheme
The Rowing Foundation
Stobart Sustainability Fund
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Wolfson Foundation - Theatre Improvement Scheme

Funding Diary

Success Stories

Sussex Community Foundation

Sussex Community Foundation’s latest round of Main Grants were awarded to the following organisations throughout East Sussex:

Eastbourne

Just Friends - £10,000 towards their events programme for the year. Just Friends is dedicated to help combat the effects of loneliness and social isolation in the elderly community. Their services allow 600 members, across four East Sussex branches, to re-engage with the community in a safe and welcoming environment.

Rooted Community Food CIC - £9,750 to grow 4 tonnes of fresh and cost-free produce which will be distributed to Eastbourne community fridges. Rooted Community Food grow sustainable, cost-free produce through community growing sessions for the community's benefit, to encourage community growing activities, promote the therapeutic benefits of being outdoors in natural environments, and support the development of a vibrant and sustainable Eastbourne food economy.

Wilder Life Wellbeing CIC - £7,500 for their programme for women who have received a cancer diagnosis. Wilder Life Wellbeing provides deep Nature Connection opportunities for the local community. It is an inclusive and supportive organisation that offers forest school activities to a range of vulnerable groups. These include families who have a child with a disability, forest school for children with a visual and/or hearing impairment and woodland days for women with a cancer diagnosis.

UnderWired Productions - £5,000 towards their musical theatre club workshops for disabled/disadvantaged children. UnderWired’s purpose is to promote equality, diversity & inclusion for the public benefit by actively seeking to support comprehensive access to live theatre, particularly in communities where there is limited opportunity.

Eastbourne Food Bank - £5,400 towards their Baby Basics project. Eastbourne Foodbank provides emergency food and essential resources to vulnerable families and individuals in Eastbourne and the surrounding area. They aim to challenge all forms of poverty through the advice given by their advice team at their six foodbank satellites, the food they supply and other services they offer.

Care for the Carers - £10,750 towards their young carers programme. Care for the Carers are the leading organisation supporting unpaid carers in East Sussex. They offer a range of services including direct support, groups, specialist counselling, an information and advice network and free activities programme.

Holding Space - £7,915.53 towards staff costs. Holding space is dedicated to providing parent and carer peer support to families in East Sussex raising children struggling with their emotional and mental health. They aim to address this critical gap by empowering parents through emotional and wellbeing support; to manage their own mental health effectively, fostering better family communication, reducing conflict and stress and strengthening family bonds.

Hastings

Progress Network – £10,000 towards leadership workshops for teenagers. Progress Network. supports creative mental/physical/health & wellbeing activities for families, children & young people in St Leonards, Hastings, Ore & Hollington. They work hand in hand with the local community in establishing primary needs, setting aims, designing solutions, and facilitating activities. A large portion of what they do is training local community members to creatively problem solve and acquire skills.

Lifesize CIC - £6,759 for their Safe and Sound wellbeing project. Lifesize is dedicated to empowering vulnerable people of all ages to achieve improved wellbeing and reach their potential through participatory music and arts activities. They work with people living with challenges such as learning disabilities, mental health challenges, physical health conditions and dementia.

Karmabank CIC - £7,500 towards core costs. Karmabank Kitchen offers food support for people in Hastings and St Leonards. Once a week, they provide a freshly cooked three-course meal and a bag of mixed groceries for up to 65 local residents experiencing food poverty. The food is surplus food from supermarkets and other businesses that is still good quality but destined for landfill.

Arts on Prescription CIC - £9,600 towards staff costs. Arts on Prescription provide accessible, inclusive art/gardening/eating/wellbeing activities to people with challenges impacting on their mental-health including poverty, low income, isolation, long term health conditions, learning-disabilities, age, language, gender, cultural barriers.

Project Rewild CIC – £6,200 towards a Men's Health Group. The primary objective of Project Rewild is to reconnect individuals living in Hastings and St Leonards with nature. Project Rewild helps inspire others to spend more time experiencing the natural world, away from their comfort zone, by making outdoor activities and adventure accessible for all.

Mediation Plus - £4,000 for their Time2Talk intergenerational mediation project. Mediation Plus provide conflict resolution to people living and working in Sussex. They provide high-quality, impartial, and confidential mediation and one-to-one services to empower individuals, groups, and communities to resolve and manage conflict. The current charity opened on 1st July 2023, following the merger of Hastings and Rother Mediation Service and Mediation +.

Sensory Soft Play – £2,000 towards staff costs. Sensory Soft Play is a Sussex-based charity that support parent carers of children and young people with SEND in Hastings and the surrounding areas. They are a parent-led organisation, managed by a board of trustees made up of parents and professionals.

Transom Trust – £,4000 towards staff costs. Transom provides supported accommodation for local people experiencing homelessness. Through housing, mentoring & counselling support and engagement with meaningful activity (employability / volunteering), Transom facilitates residents’ journeys out of homelessness towards recovery and independent living.

Brighton Therapy Centre – £10,000 to provide 500 sessions of trauma-informed therapy to 20 individuals in Hastings & Rother. Brighton Therapy Centre provide a range of trauma-informed therapies to those unable to afford the specialist services they need. They recently opened a new centre in Hastings.

Hastings International Piano – £7,300 towards workshops in local primary schools. Hastings International Piano arranges an internationally renowned biennial competition for young concert pianists from around the world, now one of the largest Piano Concerto Competitions. In addition, they offer a regular Hastings based programme of events, concerts and educational programmes to encourage the appreciation of classical music and increase participation in the arts.

Spun Glass Theatre – £8,090 towards project costs of a Making Your Mark Project. Spun Glass Theatre is a new charity specialising in creative events for children aged 0-3 and their care givers, through a range of art and support activities. Their charitable objects include to enhance the development and education of children aged 0-4 years by offering appropriate play, education and support services and facilities for them and their parents/carers, in particular but not exclusively through the provision of immersive arts workshops and other arts activities related to drama, music and dance.

East Sussex Recovery Alliance (ESRA) – £8,179 towards staff, activity, venue and volunteer costs. ESRA helps people, throughout the county, who have been addicted to alcohol or substance misuse and are trying to rebuild their lives.

Howch (Hastings Older Women’s Cohousing) - £5,000 for a series of 'Home' related creative workshops and final exhibition. Howch has held a vision for seven years of building a Cohousing sustainable intentional community to benefit single, local women aged 50+ and the wider community, providing 30-40 self-contained flats, for affordable rent or leasehold purchase, with communal spaces: productive gardens, kitchen, dining/meeting room, guest room, laundry, parking and shared car scheme.

East Sussex Veterans Hub 99/100 Group – £5,000 towards extending their services in new areas. East Sussex Veterans Hub provides a holistic approach to providing guidance and support on welfare, well-being, coping, and mentoring for veterans of HM Forces and Blue Light Services. This ranges from Information, advice and guidance to service user mentoring, referring to statutory professional and clinical agencies for specialist support. ESVH supports individuals' recovery by offering rural and craft activities in three locations across East Sussex.

Lewes

Pippa's Group - £4,000 towards rent and cleaning costs. Pippa’s Group aims to enhance the development and education of pre-school children in Lewes. Services include pre-school sessions, Speech Therapy, Forest School, Beach School, sensory room and family support.

Film Sussex CIC – £5,000 towards film making project for Newhaven residents who are neurodiverse or disadvantaged. Film Sussex focuses on creating opportunities for neurodiverse or socioeconomically disadvantaged filmmakers but extends to all who share their vision.

Seahaven Force Community Club - £6,976 towards summer academy camps for young people in Newhaven and Peacehaven. The Club develop basketball, multi sports and fun activities programmes for young people in the Seahaven Area. They work mainly in recognised areas of deprivation where there is a clear demand and partner with dozens of local groups to maximise their reach and exposure.

Havens Community Hub CIC – £5,000 for staff and core costs. The Hub aims to create, develop and support local projects that meet community need. The Havens Community Hub created the Havens Food Cooperative project in 2020 - a food waste prevention project. The aims of the Havens Food Cooperative are to fight against food waste and tackle food insecurity.

Lewes District Churches HOMELINK – £5,000 for staff costs. HOMELINK aims for the relief of persons in housing need who are in financial hardship, elderly or sick, and are resident or seeking residence in the area of the Lewes District Council. It helps those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness into private rented accommodation through interest-free loans.

Newhaven Baptist Church - £1,745.75 towards food costs. The Newhaven Baptist church runs a food bank for the community but also a warm space, shower room and laundry. Weekly food parcels are given. They are also a place where other organisations can come and give support and advice. This has included OVESCO, the fire brigade, Citizens advice and trading standards.

Phoenix Cohousing Lewes Ltd (PCL) – £9,700 for core, training and professional fee costs for financial modelling. PCL is a housing co-operative creating a not-for-profit, multi-generational, inclusive cohousing community of 30 homes. It will be set within the new Phoenix development in Lewes. Such communities address ecological issues by sharing resources, tackling isolation and supporting mental health by engaging members in running the scheme.

Rother

Family Support Work (FSW) - £5,000 towards staff and associated costs of their family practitioner in Bexhill & Sidley. FSW has a vision to build a strong family for every child in Sussex. Working in areas of high deprivation in Sussex, FSW support families who are facing significant challenges e.g. poor physical & mental health, poverty and isolation.

Rye Food Bank – £10,000 towards food costs. Rye Foodbank provide non-perishable food to people in crisis due to ill health, job loss, relationship breakdown, loss and or delay or payment of benefits. They aim is to support people of Rye and surrounding villages through crisis and hardship into independence. This is done through partnership with advisory services so that face to face help with benefits, housing, employment and debt can be easily accessed.

Little Gate Farm - £5,000 towards their Supported Employment training programme for young people. Little Gate Farm trains and supports adults with learning disabilities and Autism into paid employment. They are committed to changing society views of disabled people in the workplace and help employers to recognise the value of employing people with learning disabilities.

Sara Lee Trust – £5,000 towards staff costs. The Sara Lee Trust aims to improve the quality of life of people affected by cancer and other life threatening illnesses in Hastings and Rother through the provision of psychological and counselling support, complementary therapies and therapeutic group activities.

Music For The Memory – £2,045 towards core costs. Music for the Memory aims to advance the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia and the people who care for them, in particular by promoting the use of creative arts, in particular music and singing.

Wealden

Five Ashes Village Hall - £3,000 towards their solar energy system installation. The Hall aims to improve the conditions of life of the inhabitants of Five Ashes, in the Parish of Mayfield and Five Ashes, by the provision and maintenance of a village hall and recreation ground for use by the inhabitants, including use for meetings, lectures and classes, and other forms of recreation and leisure-time activities.

Singing Mamas Choir CIC – £5,000 towards project costs of their on prescription programme. Singing Mamas is an award-winning movement, founded by a Sussex-based NHS nurse. Their mission is “Empowering women globally to lead singing for maternal wellbeing”. Alongside leadership and community programmes, they deliver ‘On Prescription’ programmes, targeting women experiencing, or at risk of, mental ill-health in the perinatal period.

Veterans' Foundation

The Old Bank Wellbeing Trust has been awarded £20,000 each year for two years to deliver counselling sessions to any family members (including extended family) of veterans. This is in addition to their service providing lower cost counselling to residents of East Sussex.

The Veterans’ Foundation funds organisations providing support to anyone in the armed forces, past and present, and their immediate families. Their funding priorities are anyone experiencing challenges such as unemployment; homelessness; mental and physical ill-health; injuries; poor welfare; a child's loss of parent; or addiction.

The Trust recently announced their new deadlines for 2024/25, please see Funding News Information and Guidance section for details.

Information and Guidance

East Sussex in Figures (ESIF)

East Sussex in Figures is very excited to announce the East Sussex in Figures website has undergone some exciting changes and now has a completely new look.

The site provides facts and figures about East Sussex, drawing on census data, surveys and research.

The changes enable you to:

create area profiles for different geographies
respond to changing geographies and evidence requirements for Council priorities and different funding streams
present a wider range of key data and analysis about East Sussex in one place

The Team is also creating a ‘Bids for Funding’ page of downloadable area profiles referencing facts and information community groups, charities and not for profits can use as evidence for their funding applications. This page will be available soon.

The ‘Bids for Funding’ profiles will provide some of the most commonly used data that can be useful when applying for funding. Groups can access data about their ward, and Lower Super Output Area (LSOA – the smallest area datasets available for a geographical area). The profiles will provide data relating to deprivation, population, housing, families with dependent children, older people lone households and much more.

Please contact ESIF at esif@eastsussex.gov.uk if you need help finding what you need, or if you have any suggestions to improve the website.

Let’s Get Out – Guides and Resources to Make Outdoor Spaces More Inclusive for Women

This Girl Can has partnered with Multicultural Marketing Consultancy to develop two guides for those who provide and promote experiences for women in natural spaces.

Let's Get Out There is a guide to making outdoor activities more inclusive for women, featuring campaign templates and materials to help promote activities, as well as highlighting some of the organisations who are creating opportunities for women to get outside and enjoy the benefits.

Cultural Guidance and Understanding aims to provide a better understanding of women from diverse cultural backgrounds in the community from a cultural and faith perspective.

The guides are accompanied by a webinar that features some of the projects that are already successfully engaging culturally diverse communities.

National Heritage Lottery Fund- Archives Revealed Funding Programme to launch soon

The National Lottery Heritage Fund announced it has invested £5 million in the Archives Revealed funding programme.

Archives Revealed is a partnership funding programme between The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Archives, and it is the only national funding programme dedicated to unlocking archival collections. The aim of the fund is to ensure that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspectives of all people across the UK, are made accessible to the public for research and enjoyment.

The programme will offer:

A continuation of Cataloguing Grants of up to £50,000 for archives to create catalogues of important archival collections. The fund is closed but expected to reopen for applications on 2nd September 2024 and close 25th October 2024
A continuation of Scoping Grants of up to £3,000 to assess underexplored collections and support their development. The fund is closed but expected to reopen for applications on 2nd September 2024 and close 30th September 2024
The new Consortium Grants of up to £150,000 to groups of organisations for projects spanning multiple archives and collections that have the potential to create wider regional or thematic impact. The fund is expected to open for applications on 2nd September 2024. The closing date has not been provided yet

Further details on each grant programme’s timeframe and application process are expected to be published this month.

There is a webinar on 2nd September (2 to 3:30pm) on these funds. Register via eventbrite.

In addition, the National Archives is also planning to create a new sector development and training programme to build the skills of archive professionals and volunteers. Full details will be provided soon.

Sport England - new guidance on accessible and inclusive facilities

Sport England has produced new guidance which updates and expands the existing guidance, to help ensure sport and leisure facilities are safe, welcoming and accessible to all.

Aimed at planners, architects, building owners and operators, the Accessible and inclusive sports facilities guidance encourages the design of spaces that reduce or remove barriers to being more active.

That includes creating and maintaining facilities that are accessible to disabled people and meet the needs of our vibrant and diverse communities, such as those related to faith, sex, sexuality and gender identity.

Its expanded title and content are reflective of a broader, more nuanced approach to inclusion – another step in our long-term Uniting the Movement vision of unlocking the advantages of sport and physical activity for everyone.

Sport England's strategic lead for equality, Aedan Wolton, has also written a blog to introduce the guidance, which is an essential tool for their long-term strategy Uniting the Movement.

Veterans’ Foundation Announces 2024/25 Deadlines

The Veterans’ Foundation offers grants to registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations that provide support to serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families.

Applications can be made now for:

Standard grants of between £5,001 and £30,000. This can be for one year or a multi-year grant for up to three years (e.g., £10,000 per year over three years)
Salary grants up to £25,000 per year for up to three years, for the exclusive use of salary costs
Small grants of between £500 and £5,000

The new deadlines for standard and salary grants applications are:

8th October 2024 - for a decision in December 2024
20th January 2025 - for a decision in March 2025
31st March 2025 - for a decision in June 2025
21st July 2025 - for a decision in September 2025

The deadlines for small grants will be a rolling programme with quarterly deadlines.

Tel: 0333 999 3899

Email: enquiries@veteransfoundation.org.uk

Lottery

Sport England - England and Wales Cricket Board - Grass Pitch Improvement Fund

The Grass Pitch Improvement Fund seeks to address inequalities accessing safe, good quality grass cricket pitches.

The Fund is for projects that improve the quality of squares and outfields (for grass pitches rated 'unsuitable' or 'basic' to improve to at least 'good'); create sustainable management of sites (through irrigation and machinery improvements); and install hybrid pitches to increase playing capacity. The amount of grant will be determined by the England and Wales Cricket Board (EBC) on a case-by-case basis.

The scheme prioritises projects supporting women's and girls' cricket; cricket in diverse communities; disability cricket; and low socio-economic groups.

The Fund accepts applications from cricket clubs and other organisations affiliated to the ECB via their County Cricket Board (CCB) or Cricket Foundation (CF). In addition, the ECB, CCBs or CFs may solicit applications from state funded Schools and Further Education establishments, Local Authorities, or targeted Community Groups in support of local strategies.

This fund is open for applications until March 2027, or when funds are fully allocated, whichever is sooner.

Email: grantmanagement@ecb.co.uk

National Lottery Heritage Fund - Strategic Initiatives

As part of the National Lottery’s Heritage 2033 strategy, the Heritage Fund has launched two new initiatives to address long-standing heritage issues across the UK.

Landscape Connections supports projects and activities that improve protected landscapes and make them more accessible. Projects should take place in national parks and national landscapes and:

Enable everyone to access landscapes rich in nature, clean water, and fresh air, and be inspiring in their beauty and cultural heritage
Help landscapes become better for nature and more able to welcome people from all backgrounds
Support those living in and caring for these places to strengthen them as working landscapes based on why the landscape is currently failing and how this will be addressed
Accelerate lasting nature recovery and show how conservation/recovery can be delivered with, by, and for people who live and work there
Create innovative frameworks where communities, landowners, organisations, and those that manage the land can work together to agree on how to influence and drive change to ensure a legacy

The scheme accepts applications from not-for-profit organisations and partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations.

Protected Landscape management bodies must be a key partner within any application relating to the landscape where they operate and where the works will be taking place, though they do not need to be the applicant or lead partner of an application.

Heritage in Need: Places of Worship supports projects helping places of worship tackle heritage challenges, become more sustainable, share their heritage, and welcome people from all backgrounds. This fund aims to address the following challenges:

Repairing listed buildings, particularly in rural areas
Workforce and volunteer capability to manage heritage
Supporting heritage in places of worship that are currently inaccessible, at risk, or under-used

This strand of funding will support strategic projects at a regional or national level that will:

Proactively tackle long-standing heritage issues at a large scale
Enable a coordinated cross-territory approach that will strengthen delivery
Address gaps where proposals are not coming through in the National Lottery Heritage Grants Programme
Accelerate new ideas and interventions where a deliberate approach is needed

Both schemes (Landscape Connections and Places of Worship) award grants ranging from £10,000 and £10 million. The application process and deadlines are the same for both schemes.

The Lottery makes decisions on a monthly basis for applications up to £250,000.

For organisations applying for more than £250,000, there is a two stage process, starting with an Expression of Interest. Successful applicants are then invited to submit a full application. If invited to make a full application for more than £250,000, the next deadline is 21st November 2024.

Tel: 020 7591 6000

Email: enquire@heritagefund.org.uk

National Lottery Community Fund - The UK Fund

The National Lottery’s UK Fund supports not for profit organisations and is one of the first significant commitments as part of its new strategy, ‘It starts with community.’

This strand of the Lottery’s Community funding is for projects that:

Benefit communities across the UK (by working in different locations, or by sharing learning between countries)
Scale up their impact by expanding their work (by helping more people, or doing more for people they already work with)
Support people experiencing poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination.
Help make significant changes to services or systems that affect people’s everyday live

Projects must also meet one of the following aims:

Improve relationships between people with different life experiences
Help people and communities who find it difficult to meet face-to-face to make meaningful connections online
Help people from all backgrounds to influence the future of their communities
Help children and young people facing specific challenges change the systems that affect them
Help more organisations to involve and listen to children and young people

See the National Lottery’s blog page for more information on the types of projects they fund.

The UK Fund awards £500,000 to £5 million for projects running between 2 and 10 years.

Apply any time. It takes at least six months from receipt of application to notification of decisions.

Tel: 0345 4102 030

Email: TheUKFund@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Government

Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)- Memorial Grant Scheme

DCMS’s Memorial Grant Scheme supports registered charities with VAT on the construction, repair and maintenance of public memorial structures.

Memorials must be public, be a structure, commemorate; and be accessible to the public for at least 30 hours a week. They can commemorate a people, animals or events. Works on original memorials must have taken place on or after 16th March 2005.

The scheme provides approximately £400,000 of funding in each financial year, which is distributed every three months. The grant amounts awarded each quarter can vary. The maximum grant available is the full rate of VAT (20% of project costs).

Apply by 30th September 2024.

Tel: 0800 500 3009

Email: grants@memorialgrant.org.uk

Skills Capital Fund - Hastings and Rother

The Rother Skills Capital Fund and Hastings Skills Capital Fund have both opened for applications. This is funding awarded under the previous Government, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

The fund is made up of £1m (£500,000 ringfenced to each geographical area). It is envisioned that the fund will make three grants up to £133,300 and four grants up to £25,000 in each area.

Proposals must be for skills capital projects that will be delivered in either Rother or Hastings that that will improve employability and skills provision that aligns with Skills East Sussex Priorities and Priority Sectors and meets identified need and demand in Hastings or Rother.

Applicants must be one of the following types of institutions: Registered VCSE (Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise) organisations with training objectives identified in constitution/articles; Or a Registered Education/Training Provider (such as a school, local authority training centre, FE College or Independent Training Provider) with an OFSTED Good or Outstanding rating.

Premises must be in either Rother or Hastings. All projects must conclude by 31st March 2025.

A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) is available on the fund’s website.

The deadline for submitting applications to either (or both) of these funds is midday, Friday 6th September 2024.

Email: SkillsEastSussex@eastsussex.gov.uk

Reach for the Sky Challenge Fund 2024/25

Reach for the Sky Challenge Fund 2024/25, administered by the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority, is funding outreach programmes and events that encourage young people to consider aviation and/or aerospace as a career.

Projects need to meet these three objectives:

Inspire the next generation of aviation professionals, championing the opportunities available in the sector
Reach individuals who would not otherwise be aware of opportunities available within the aviation sector
Have a broad impact by reaching and engaging multiple people

This funder awards discretionary grants to not for profit companies and charities but the total project costs should be less than £750,000.

Applicants need to submit ‘gold, silver and bronze’ funding ambitions with their application.

Gold: the maximum amount the applicant organisations would like to request
Silver: a reduction in ambition and therefore funding for the project
Bronze: the minimum funding request

Submit any questions about this fund by 23rd August 2024. Submit an application by 27th September 2024 (12pm).

Tel: 0161 499 3055

Email: skillschallengefundteam@caa.co.uk

Trusts and Foundations

Ancaster Trust

The Ancaster Trust provides small grants between £100 to £300 for projects focusing on medical and social welfare; disability; arts; culture and heritage; science; or community.

Apply any time. The Trust does not have a website.

Ancaster Trust
c/o Sayers Butterworth LLP
3rd Floor
12 Gough Square
London
EC4A 3DW

Tel: 020 7936 1910

Andor Charitable Trust

Andor Charitable Trust provides grants to projects focused on medical research; arts; educational activities; helping the disabled and/or older people; sheltered accommodation; or relieving poverty.

This funder accepts applications from registered charities. They generally award between £1,000 and £3,000, however, there may be exceptions for larger amounts.

Apply any time by contacting the Trust. They do not have a website.

Tel: 0207 544 8865

Email: robin@blickrothenberg.com

Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust

The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust awards up to £10,000 for projects working with people of all ages who are socially disadvantaged and/or have disabilities.

The Trust accepts applications from registered charities who have been established for at least three years with an income below £500,000.

Apply any time. Charities that have applied online will receive a decision on their application by email the following spring (May) or autumn (November). Not being selected to receive a grant does not disqualify a charity from reapplying in order to be considered in the next committee meeting.

Email: grants@ajct.org.uk

Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust supports charities and community interest companies working with the Armed Forces community. The Trust has four funding themes of non-core healthcare services for Veterans; removing barriers to family life; extra support, both in and after Service; and measures to integrate military and civilian communities. Their funding programmes are as follows:

Service Women - Seen and Heard Programme: supports projects helping to enable serving women improve their access to wellbeing services that may be less readily available to them than in civilian life.

Projects must either promote work-life balance, enjoying and achieving; mental and physical health and wellbeing; or support for marginalised and minority women.

Women benefitting may include those who:

Are neurodiverse
Have additional educational needs
Are from Black and Minoritised Ethnic communities
Are less able to access services due to lack of confidence using social media or online platforms
Age and stage of life impacts their ability to access services, such as very young women, those raising children, older women
Need support with their sexuality or gender identity
Are from rural or isolated communities
Are from low-income backgrounds

This strand of funding provides up to £50,000 for a one-year grant or up to £100,000 for a two-year grant.

In exceptional cases, an enhanced grant of up to £50,000 to deliver an additional element can be requested for projects of up to two years duration. One-year projects are not eligible for an enhanced grant.

Apply by 25th September 2024 (12pm).

Hidden Voice Programme: is aimed at delivering accessible mental health and wellbeing support in Armed Forces communities, with a focus on prevention and early intervention.

Projects must meet all of these outcomes:

Build collaborative partnerships between Armed Forces organisations and specialist non-Armed Forces organisations
Identify and address known and unknown gaps in service provision for the Armed Forces community
Provide accessible, preventative and defined interventions (rather than general support for the Armed Forces community)
Increase knowledge and understanding within mainstream voluntary sector organisations of the unique needs of the Armed Forces community in a demonstrable way and create opportunities for continuing support

Beneficiaries may include:

Black and minority ethnic individuals
Carers
People with disabilities
Members of the LGBT+ community
Those for whom English is an additional language
People from Foreign & Commonwealth communities
Other members of the Armed Forces community with seldom-heard needs that can be overlooked

This funder provides grants up to £20,000 for projects being delivered over 12 months.

The next deadlines for applications are 12pm on 11th September for a decision by 31st December 2024 and 12pm on 8th January 2025 for a decision by 30th April 2025

Embedding Prevention of Veteran Suicide Programme: supports projects enabling systemic change and long-term, sustainable impact in supporting Armed Forces Veterans with poor mental health, their families and carers.

Projects need to support staff who work with vulnerable beneficiaries; address mental health wellbeing, help-seeking, and stigma within the Armed Forces community; and address needs in under-represented groups.

This strand of funding provides grants to registered charities of up to £50,000 for one year projects and up to £100,000 for two year projects.

Applicants should read the ‘One is Too Many Evaluation’ Report beforehand. Apply by 2nd October 2024 (12pm).

Free from Fear Programme: supports projects addressing the prevention of domestic abuse and support for those affected within the Armed Forces community.

Projects should aim to:

Deliver effective, preventative and educational measures regarding domestic abuse within Armed Forces communities, by addressing emerging and current challenges
Provide clear routes, or remove barriers, to enable victim-survivors to access effective support, including the ability to recognise and report domestic abuse
Establish long-term, sustainable improvements and adaptation of support to meet the evolving needs of victim-survivors

There is interest in projects that are actively aware of additional factors that might present additional barriers in accessing support. This could include those with disabilities, foreign and Commonwealth families, the LGBT+ community or Armed Forces serving personnel and families overseas.

This strand of funding provides grants to charities and community interest companies between £75,000 and £150,000 for projects delivered over one to two years.

Apply by 16th October 2024 (12pm).

Email: info@covenantfund.org.uk

Barclays Community Football Fund

Barclays Community Football Fund supports not-for-profit organisations operating in an area of high deprivation, to provide football activities that engage young people from underrepresented groups.

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

Be located in or supporting young people from IMD areas 1-3. (Disability football applications from groups that sit outside these areas will be considered)
Be already delivering football activities to young people under 25 or are wanting to start with support from the Access grant
Be delivering services to at least one of the priority groups: women and girls; young people with disabilities; from racially diverse communities; from the LGBTQ+ community; and from lower socio-economic groups

Grants, for example, may be spent on venue hire including floodlights and heating; coaching costs; volunteer expenses; equipment; kit; marketing and communications; training and qualifications; or insurances and affiliation.

Applicants can receive:

£1,000 Access Grants to spend on increasing underrepresented young people’s access to play
Up to £5,000 Deep Impact grants for existing fund recipients
Coaching grants to get more women qualified to coach girls’ football at a grassroots level
Access to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training and resources
Opportunities to apply for Premier League and Barclays FA Women’s Super League
Tickets, mascot opportunities and exclusive promotional experiences

Apply by 15th September 2024.

Tel: 0203 848 4670

Email: barclaysfootball@sported.org.uk

The Bedgebury Foundation – Supporting Access to Education

The Bedgebury Foundation supports access to education for children and young people under the age of 25 in Kent and East Sussex, where lack of funding is a barrier to achievement.

The Foundation offers two categories of grant:

Teaching and Training (T&T) supports additional training, especially in Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD), Speech and Language Therapists (SaLT), Occupational Therapy (OT), Trauma and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) for adults helping children and young people access education and learning. It might be Teachers or TAs undertaking Level 5 or Level 7 study or part or whole school Continuing Professional Development.

Examples of previous awards have been for short courses such as an awareness of autism or instilling wellbeing. Longer courses have encompassed Family Therapy training, Speech & Language, and Therapeutic Coaching. The Foundation favours trainees working in mainstream schools who wish to share their newly acquired knowledge and skills with other mainstream schools, charities, young offenders, religious or youth groups

Inspiring Young Minds (IYA): for the 2024-2025 school year the Foundation will only make grants for support that specifically addresses non written communication difficulties, for example, Speech, Language, Hearing Impairment, Social communication or English as a second language. Examples of previous awards under this theme have been licences for assessment tools, SaLT lead interventions and interventions provided by charities or Community Interest Companies

Bedgebury does not specify minimum/maximum grant values. Awards are discretionary.

Please note with regards to both funds - Bedgebury does not support applications that are not related to a specific need, activities that form part of the National Curriculum or replacement of statutory obligations.

Bedgebury’ s funding rounds are as follows:

T&T is open for applications now with a close date of 29th September 2024, awards will be made in November 2024. A second session will have a close date of 2nd March 2025, these awards will be made in May 2025
IYM will open in December 2024 with a close date of 2nd March 2025, awards will be made in May 2025. This is the only session of the 2024/2025 school year.

Email: admin@bedgeburyfoundation.org.uk

Britford Bridge Trust

Britford Bridge Trust supports registered charities delivering arts and health projects.

Their priorities for funding are:

Primarily, the prevention or relief of poverty and the advancement of education, health, arts, culture, heritage, or science
Secondarily, the advancement of citizenship or community development, amateur sport, environmental protection. Also those in need effected by youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage

The Trust’s grants generally range between £10,000 and £50,000. In exceptional circumstances they may be higher.

The next application deadlines are 30th September and 31st December 2024.

Tel: 01224 392264

Email: thebritfordbridgetrust@brodies.com

Bruce Wake Charitable Trust

The Bruce Wake Charitable Trust accepts applications from registered charities relating to the provision of leisure activities for people with a disability. The Trust particularly favours applications where beneficiaries meet one or all of the following criteria:

The potential beneficiaries are physically disabled wheelchair users and unable to raise the required funds
Improved access for wheelchair users is proposed. This funding strand is for projects with a maximum budget of £25k. The maximum grant awarded under this category is £3,000
A sporting or leisure activity involving disabled wheelchair users is proposed

Apply any time.

Tel: 01572 491100

Email: info@brucewaketrust.co.uk

Chalk Cliff Trust

Chalk Cliff Trust supports East Sussex charities, action groups and benevolent organisations for a variety of causes.

Funding can be used for:

Youth schemes and activities, e.g. youth centres, clubs, arts-focused projects
Children’s activities, e.g. playgroups, kids clubs or children’s education, and the relief of poverty
The care of the elderly, e.g. events and activities for elderly people, or transport needs
Activities for people with learning difficulties or disabilities
Activities preserving the environment
Regional arts, music, literature and cultural projects

The Trust generally awards between £3,000 - £5,000 and is flexible about the type of costs it will fund.

Apply any time.

Email: apply@chalkclifftrust.org

Concertina Charitable Trust

Concertina Charitable Trust funds registered charities to provide musical activities and related facilities for the elderly community in need. These activities should provide therapeutic benefit for their health and wellbeing.

The Trust is keen to support smaller charities that might otherwise find it difficult to get funding. These include care homes providing musical entertainment for residents.

Grants are up to £250 and match funding is favoured.

Post a completed application form by 31st October 2024.

Simon Baynes
The Concertina Charitable Trust
Nells Platt
Smithwood Common
Cranleigh
Surrey
GU6 8QY

Dan Maskell Tennis Trust

The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust funds the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching to enable disabled people to play tennis.

Groups, clubs and schools can apply for up to £1,600 for the following items and projects:

Wheelchairs: organisations can apply for a contribution towards one or more tennis wheelchairs designed for general use at grass roots level
Bag of equipment: Kit bags to include rackets, balls, mini net, and coaching aids such as cones and throw down marker lines. The Trust also provides funding towards sound balls for visually impaired groups
Grants towards starting a disability group, club programme, project or help with an existing project or programme. Examples of items considered include help towards court hire, coaching fees, equipment (if not applying for a kit bag). All projects should aim towards self-financing and sustainability

The next deadline for applications is 27th October 2024.

Tel: 01737 831707

Email: info@danmaskelltennistrust.org.uk

DWF Foundation

DWF Foundation supports projects addressing education, employability, homelessness health and wellbeing, or environment and sustainability.

The Foundation is open for applications from registered charities with initiatives that develop and improve local communities that:

Tackle a specific community issue
Help voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient
Encourage the involvement in the community of those too often excluded
Enable young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community

DWF makes discretionary grant values and awards are generally under £5,000. Please note, running costs and salaries will only be funded if they are part of a project application.

Previous grant recipients include ADHD Foundation, St Oswald’s Hospice, The Choir with No Name and Veteran’s Aid.

The next deadline for applications is 31st October 2024. For more information about applying, sign up for one of their online workshops. The next one is on 2nd September 2024 (2 – 3pm).

Tel: 0151 907 3000

Email: clare.beavan@dwf.law

Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund

The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund supports a range of projects that bring collections closer to people.

The Collections Fund has a twin focus on inclusion and collections. It welcomes applications from museums and galleries for projects that will result in work that explores and influences key themes in social and climate justice, such as wellbeing, decolonisation, climate crisis, antiracism and others. The Fund aims to enhance its learning from grantees and share this with the wider museum sector.

The Fund provides core funding to offer greater flexibility and support embedded change. Organisations can apply for £40,000 - £100,000 over a period of up to three years.

They are prioritising smaller and medium sized organisations where funding of this size can make the most difference in the long term. It is an essential requirement that community groups, partners and/or stakeholders have prominent roles in the work. All applications must use or involve existing collections, and these should typically be held by an Accredited museum or partnerships of museums and other organisations.

The deadline for applications is 16th September 2024.

Tel: 020 7566 7851

Email: sally@museumsassociation.org

Footwork – People and Places Programme

Footwork – People and Places Programme is aimed at local voluntary and community groups in England and Wales. The programme is specifically aimed to support people who are working to transform their neighbourhoods for the better.

People and Places offers funding, support and connections groups need to get their project off the ground or scale it up. Projects should address one or more of the challenges:

Ensuring facilities, land and buildings are used and/or owned by local people
Ensuring local people have a say or can act in how their neighbourhood is being transformed
Ensuring local people can gain access to resources such as greener energy, materials or finance so they can live more sustainably and affordably

This Programme offers an unrestricted grant of £5,000, one to one mentoring support; meeting fellow collaborators (field trips and online); place visits by the Footwork team; access to Footwork’s space in London; and connection with a network of fellow community innovators.

Apply by 9th September 2024.

Email: ellie@footwork.org.uk

Garfield Weston Foundation

Garfield Weston Foundation’s interests cover a wide range of thematic areas. The Foundation accepts applications from registered charities and CIO’s specialising in any of the following:

Arts that engage with a variety of audiences and that can demonstrate impact and quality
Community projects - for example volunteering schemes, restoration of village halls and community centres
Education initiatives ranging from small local projects such as reading schemes and after school clubs, to major institutions such as universities
Environment projects ranging from raising public awareness of and finding solutions to environmental issues or undertaking conservation work
Faith – for projects enabling religious buildings to be used for an inclusive range of charitable purposes by their local communities. Funding could help towards installing toilets and kitchens and for restoration works to historic church buildings
Health – grants could, for example, support care homes and hospices; charities specialising in treatment and support for specific illnesses; or medical breakthrough research
Museums and Heritage - Organisations should be conserving and interpreting heritage for future generations, ensuring it is accessible to all
Welfare – Projects could involve the those in the criminal justice system, the elderly, homeless, disabled and those with special needs
Youth – Projects should consistently demonstrate the commitment of volunteers and professionals to support and inspire young people to achieve their potential. This includes small local groups, such as girl guides and youth clubs to larger national youth development charities

Garfield offers two levels of funding: Regular Grants up to £100,000 and Major Grants for £100,000 and above. (Their Major grants stream is for projects and organisations with an overall annual income in excess of £1 million).

Organisations can apply for capital, project and revenue costs. Please note, Garfield’s grants tend to be for 10% to 20% contribution to total project costs.

You can apply any time for grants under £100,000. Major grant applicants should email a two page summary to Grants Assistant Ciara Molloy (cmolloy@garfieldweston.org ) outlining what they are raising funds for, the total cost and fundraising target. This can be done any time.

Tel: 020 7399 6565

Email: admin@garfieldweston.org

The Grocers' Charity

Grocers’ awards up to £5,000 to small, registered charities working in the following areas:

Relief of poverty for projects working in areas of high deprivation, increasing social mobility, empowering those who experience homelessness and revitalising community life
Elderly for services that end social exclusion, befriending to address loneliness, services that enhance daily activities or home life
Disability and Inclusion for work identifying and tackling barriers to inclusion and participation, and front-line support for disabled people
Health for activities supporting people with wellbeing concerns or mental health illnesses
Military for innovative programmes, education or employment for ex-service people, support for physical emotional and mental wellbeing of current ad ex-service people and their families
Heritage and the Arts for work conserving and restoring historic buildings (excluding places of worship), historical objects and paintings, educational and skills development of creative talent for artists with financial challenges or disability support requirements, and engaging with marginalised audiences
Environment and Conservation for projects maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystems and protecting biological diversity, connecting people with nature by educating behavioural changes, and countering the effects of pollution and climate change
Children and Young People for work building strengths and potential, provide counselling, peer support or group activities

To be eligible to apply, your registered charity must have an income under £500,000.

Previous recipients include Bramber Bakehouse providing therapeutical baking, well-being and employability skills for female survivors of trafficking and Lippy People Trust which supports individuals to lead the design, delivery and sharing of their own high-quality video stories.

Grocers’ runs a two stage application process. The first stage is to submit an Initial Enquiry form (you will receive a reply within up to three weeks after the deadline). If invited to apply, you will have one week to submit a full application.

The next closing dates for initial enquiries are 6th September 2024 and 10th January 2025.

Tel: 020 7606 3113

Email: enquiries@grocershall.co.uk

Historic England - History in the Making

Historic England’s History in the Making grants programme is aimed at projects that involve underrepresented young people (aged 13-25) in research, discovery and commemoration of local histories.

Priority audiences are young people who are disadvantaged by their social and/or economic background or circumstances or by where they live, those from the global majority, e.g. young people who are Black, Asian, dual-heritage, and/or from a minoritised ethnic group, those identifying as LGBTQ+, disabled or neurodivergent.

To be eligible for support, young people must be involved in planning, producing and shaping the outputs of the project.

Each project will be required to produce a physical place marker in a publicly accessible space that commemorates and celebrates the stories, people or events that the young people have been exploring. Place markers could be:

An installation or artwork in, and of, itself, e.g. a mural, a sculpture, a community bench etc
An engaging panel or plaque that triggers other content via links or QR codes, e.g. audio tours, videos or other creative responses

The Programme awards £10,000 - £15,000 and is open to applications from Registered charities, Community Interest Companies and local authorities. Successful applicants will have up to 18 months to complete their project, which must be delivered between 1st January 2025 and 1st July 2026.

Apply by 2nd September 2024.

Tel: 020 7973 3700

Email: HPCPCalls@historicengland.org.uk

John Jackson Charitable Trust

The John Jackson Charitable Trust supports projects that benefit the Eastbourne community.

Projects should focus on education; heritage; social welfare; disability; animal welfare; community sports; and community arts.

Recent grant recipients include:

First Responders
Children’s Cycle Track
Sovereign Harbour Community Centre
Raystede
Eastbourne Swimming Club
Ocklynge Junior School
Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society

Apply any time.

Tel: 01323 417876

Email: info@johnjacksoncharitabletrust.org.uk

Masonic Charitable Foundation – Children and Young People Grants Programme (SEND)

The Foundation’s Children and Young People Grants Programme supports registered charities working with children and young people up to 25 years old with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

The aims of this fund are to:

Increase social inclusion
Increase independence and connections to local community
Improve access to early intervention services and therapies, for diagnosed, suspected conditions and pre diagnosis
Ensure parents/carers are better able to cope in their caring role and meet their child’s needs
Enable parents/carers to be better informed of their child’s options and rights, and the services available

There are two funding levels:

Large grants between £10,000 and £60,000 which can be spread over three years. For projects with defined goals and budgets. Charities must have an annual income between £500,000 and £5 million
Small unrestricted grants between £1,000 and £5,000 per year for up to three years. For charities with an income of between £25,000 and £500,000

Apply any time. First, complete the online eligibility checker. Those who are eligible may then complete an expression of interest.

Tel: 020 3146 3337

Email: charitygrants@mcf.org.uk

Metal for Good Grants - Rock and Metal Music

Metal for Good Grants are aimed at community groups, charities, and other not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects and activities that use rock and metal music to address inequalities, improve wellbeing, and help young people to thrive.

The project should focus on one or more of the following themes:

Helping young people (aged between 0 and 24) to thrive – This can include projects that provide extra-curricular music opportunities within mainstream education using music to address social exclusion and raise attainment; projects in alternative provision that use music to help build confidence, raise aspiration, and develop new skills; projects based in the community that work with children and young people to address social exclusion
Addressing inequalities – This can include projects that provide opportunities for underrepresented groups to gain music skills or break into the music industry, such as mentoring programmes, community showcase events, or specialist training for groups with defined characteristics; projects that use music to give underrepresented groups a voice or bring communities together
Improving wellbeing – This can include projects that use music to improve physical and mental wellbeing; peer support groups; singing groups; dance and exercise groups

This funder provides grants up to £3,000.

Apply by 22nd August 2024.

Email: hello@metalforgood.org

Michael Tippett Musical Foundation

The Michael Tippet Musical Foundation provides grants for the development of group music making, especially involving young people, with composing key to projects.

Focuses for funding are performances and recording of music by Michael Tippett, to generate greater revenue for a wider range of activities in future.

This funder provides grants between £500 and £3,000 (the average being around £2,000) to organisations including schools.

Apply by 30th September 2024.

Email: admin@tippettfoundation.org.uk

Music for All - Community Project Funding

Music for All supports community groups and schools to bring music to their communities.

Music for All’s current round offers the following support:

Harris Foundation Schools Progression Award offers up to £5,000 schools looking to deepen their music provision or continue supporting groups of music makers within their school. Funding should add to existing music education provision and allow more pupils to appreciate the many benefits of music making. Funds can be used to support any type of ensemble including bands, orchestras or informal groups and should be put towards the purchase of instruments, studio equipment, specialised teaching support or other items specifically designed to support the establishment and/or continuation of music groups
Arturia Analog Lab V controller – Groups can apply for up to three controllers suitable for use with standalone VST, AAX or Audio Unit. Applicants should be able to demonstrate how their group is already working with technology and how this software will enhance their work
Guitars (electric) + amplifier (+ The Maestro Online Masterclasses) – Community groups can apply for up to five electric guitars and amplifiers to support disadvantaged music makers. Left handed guitars are also available
Drumkit + drumsticks (+ The Maestro Online Masterclasses) – Community groups can apply for one drumkit to support disadvantaged music makers
Ukulele bundle (sopranos) with added ukulele voices (concert and bass) for teacher/leader (+ The Maestro Online Masterclasses) – Community and educational groups can apply for up to one bundle, which includes 25 ukuleles, to support work with deprived or marginalised communities and/or developing music education for those living in the area
Pbuzz instruments – Community and educational groups can apply for up to 10 pbuzz instruments to support work with deprived or marginalised communities and/or developing music education for those living in the area
Keyboard with stand, pedal and headphones and seat – Community groups can apply for up to five keyboards with accessories to support disadvantaged music makers

Apply by 30th September 2024 (8am).

Tel: 0140 362 8892

Email: help@musicforall.org.uk

NFU Mutual Charitable Trust

The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust supports charitable organisations working in agriculture, rural development and insurance.

NFU’s Trustees are particularly interested in initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas.

The Trust focuses on providing funding to larger initiatives, which would have a significant impact on the rural community.

Funding is at the discretion of the Trust. Most grants fall within the range of £1,000 to £50,000 to support the running costs of various projects and services. Larger grants are used to support organisations which will have significant impact on rural communities at a national level.

The next deadline for applications is 4th October 2024.

Tel: 01789 202679

Email: nfu_mutual_charitable_trust@nfumutual.co.uk

Peter Sell Award

The Peter Sell Award offers up to £5,000 to Scout and Guide groups to widen engagement and involvement in Scouting and Guiding. Funds should also have longer term benefits, e.g. purchasing equipment that can be used in later years or by encouraging people to stay involved with their organisation for longer.

Apply by 14th September 2024.

Tel: 01727 843603

Email: admin@lesliesellct.org.uk

Royal Academy of Engineering - Ingenious Public Engagement Grants Scheme

The Royal Academy of Engineering’s - Ingenious Scheme supports projects that engage the public with engineers and engineering while providing engineers with skills and opportunities in public engagement.

The Academy awards up to £30,000 to support a wide range of projects including for example, after-school workshops. The key aim is to build a community of engineers who have the skills and enthusiasm to continue to take part in such activities beyond the lifetime of any individual project.

The Academy prioritises projects that reach diverse and underrepresented audiences including communities in the most deprived neighbourhoods in England and that engages with engineers and people of different genders, ages and ethnic backgrounds.

Projects working with school groups must be completed by 31st July 2026. Projects working alternatively or additionally with family or community groups, must be completed by 31st August 2026.

Apply by 25th September 2024 (4pm). Applicants are notified with a decision in February 2025 with projects to start from May 2025.

Tel: 020 7766 0772

Email: engagement@raeng.org.uk

The Rowing Foundation

The Rowing Foundation promotes the participation in rowing of young people under the age of 18 years or who are still in full time education and the disabled of all ages.

The Foundation welcomes applications from organisations and clubs involved in 'on water' elements of the sport of rowing who may be too small to apply for larger sources of funding, such as a National Lottery grant.

The Foundation provides two funding streams:

Equipment grants up to £4,000 in any three-year period; this can be comprised of a single grant, or smaller grants aggregated over the period. Grants are for up to 50% of the overall project costs
Boat refurbishment grants up to £4,000 for up to 50% of the costs of refurbishments of boats used by juniors

Organisations can apply for a Boat refurbishment grant at any time. The next deadline for Equipment Grants applications is 4th November 2024 (noon).

Tel: 01932 855662

Email: enquiries@therowingfoundation.org.uk

Stobart Sustainability Fund

The Stobart Sustainability Fund supports transformation in local communities by tackling climate change, reducing carbon emissions or protecting and enhancing the environment. Their aim is to help create a green, more sustainable world.

This funder provides discretionary grant amounts to not for profit organisations, community groups and schools.

Apply any time.

Tel: 01925 605400

Email: enquiries@eddiestobart.com

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation focuses their grant giving to not for profit organisations based in and carrying out work to improve the lives of people in areas of extreme urban deprivation or deprived rural districts in the UK.

To be eligible, applicants must be located as follows:

Urban locations (with a population of more than 10,000 people) - applicant organisations' postcodes must be ranked within the most deprived 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
Rural locations (with a population of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants in a village/town) - applicant organisations' postcodes must be ranked within the most deprived 50% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation

The Foundation supports initiatives that:

Strengthen local communities – by empowering local people, bridging divides, building neighbourhood connection, encouraging community participation, and fostering inclusion
Address causes of deprivation
Create opportunity for disadvantaged individuals
Champion small to medium-sized charities – by supporting grassroots, community-based charities and voluntary organisations, with frontline experience of helping vulnerable individuals

This funder provides the following grants:

Small Grants for Community support: this strand is for projects focused on community services/centres; alternative education; employment support; youth and family support; counselling; or substance misuse recovery. Small Grants awards between £2,000 and £10,000 for one year. (Successful applicants can reapply for a further two years). Applicants must have a total income below £250,000 to apply
Major Grants for Family support: this strand is for projects focused on early intervention programmes; addiction support; and those with family in the criminal justice system. Major Grants awards £10,000 - £50,000 for one year or multi-year grants for a maximum of three years not exceeding £100,000 in total over this period. Applicants must have a total annual income up to £500,000 to be eligible to apply.

Organisations can use their funding for revenue costs including core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Grant amounts requested must not be for more than 50% of the total cost of the project.

Apply any time.

Tel: 020 3150 4517

Email: grants@trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk

Wolfson Foundation - Theatre Improvement Scheme

Wolfson’s Theatre Improvement Scheme funds capital improvements to improve theatres environmental sustainability.

The Foundation awards up to £20,000 to projects that demonstrate how a small intervention can have a big impact on reducing the theatre's environmental impact. Previous awards include:

Installing a building management system to improve building management efficiency, reduce energy usage and maximise staff capacity
Supplying new heating/cooling systems to reduce environmental impact and improve audience and artist experience in the auditorium
Improving draught-proofing windows/doors to retain heat and save costs
Replacing Tungsten with LED lighting and supporting the purchase of digital lighting operating systems

Send applications to grants@theatrestrust.org.uk by 6th September 2024 (12pm).

Tel: 020 7836 8591

Email: info@theatrestrust.org.uk